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"Lest details be mistaken for clues, note that Mr. Charles Unwin, lifetime resident of this city, rode his bicycle to work every day, even when it was raining." From The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry

I'm in the dream of a detective, in the dream of another detective, in the dream of a criminal!!! OMG!!!

Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg by George by Wesley Stace The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman

Ooh! How goes "Shakespeare"! I've been curious about this one! I'm about half way through "The Urban Hermit" by Sam MacDonald. It's pretty darn funny!

I can't recommend this book highly enough! If you get a chance, do pick it up! And thanks for the other titles! That's 3 mentions of the Calvino book,now. I may give that one a go.

Author Peter Kocan was sentenced to “life” in 1966. He spent many years in an Australian hospital for the criminally insane for the attempted assassination of Labor leader Arthur Calwell. This work is not called a memoir but, told in the quiet voice of an introspective loner, the tone and detail...

Thanks so much for commenting on my blog. I wasn't sure anyone was reading it since they don't give "hit" statistics anymore. My two blogs on Blogger keep me very busy. Anyway, I just posted another review of a book that I highly recommend, "The Treatment & The Cure" by Peter Kocan

Just started "American Lightning" by Howard Blum.

Almost twenty years after his death the inexplicable life and works of Salvador Dali are still a mystery. And con-men continue to make financial gains by using his name. In Dali & I, Stan Lauryssens may well be continuing the tradition. I wanted to quit reading this book about 30 pages in...

The last time anyone saw Mary C. Rogers of New York was Sunday July 25, 1841. To this day the crime remains unsolved. While Stashower makes no attempt to unravel this mystery in The Beautiful Cigar Girl, Edgar Allan Poe believes he is able to do so through his fictional detective C. Auguste...

When you're looking for a light, humorous read, how could The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse escape your notice. The story follows an adolescent by the name of Jack. He's decided to leave his small factory town home to find his fortune in the big city. The city is Toy City, which...

Just started Charlatan by Pope Brock. Very excited.

I've always found myself unusually drawn to the unusual. This includes, to a great degree, circus folk. So, when I saw a single copy of American Sideshow in the theatre section at the bookstore I immediately honed in. This book is a treasure chest of information about sideshow performers...

I would try Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen

I'm not usually a fan of "artsy" books. My thought tends to be "if they need an artsy gimmick the writing is probably lacking". After reading Women's World by Graham Rawle I will not let that keep me away again! Written entirely with clippings from vintage 1960's women's magazines, the...

Have you tried BookCloseouts.com or some of the book trading sites?

Yep. I did that, too.

Sorry about that, Anamnesis. I'm very new here and it didn't even occur to me that I should search the threads first. I'm not sure that I still wouldn't have started a new one though, since, in this case, it's a review I was posting. But, by all means, if anyone knows how to merge the two...

Mary Roach- Stiff :Review And you thought death was boring! What do you want to do with your death? Who knew we would still have such a wide variety of career choices? In Stiff, Mary Roach educates us on all the possibilities. Interested in having plastic surgery? It costs the cadaver...

Dali & I by Stan Lauryssens. Very badly written and most likely fiction.